> Thanks Karl, > > Some questions: Hello
> 1) Does Busybox init require the daemon to background itself? So I seem no reason why "nohup daemon > /var/log/logfile &" isn't sufficient for this, or is there something I am not aware of ? > 2) Does Busybox init give you a reasonable way to automatically restart the > process > after the process terminates? > > 3) Does Busybox init give you the choice of auto-restart or not for each > different > process? If it does, that's something specifically missing in Runit. At the risk of pinning my own interpretation on this: I suppose for quick, dirty and crashy hacks maybe automated restarts are useful to paper over some problems. But if the daemon you are running is likely to crash, it might also just hang in an infinite loop or leak file descriptors, or fill up a partition or grind through swap, things that a respawn doesn't really solve ... We are often told that "thesedays computers are cheap and programmers are expensive" as an excuse for writing flaky software, and from the perspective of the greedy and immortal AI that is a corporation, this makes sense - a bit of bespoke software, even if flaky, might do the work of a human more quickly and cheaper while the costs are externalised. But the free software universe things are different - unreliable or bloated software wastes the time and hardware resources of thousands, perhaps millions of people. And even if you are happy to ignore the environmental costs (electricity, more hardware bought more often), then maybe some other reasoning might be persuasive: I certainly often marvel at the craftsmanship of people from previous ages - from as small as an excellent hand tool to as expansive as a church, mosque or similar - those things were made not "meh, good enough", but as good as humanly possible, and I would think that the free software world has some similarities there - while software might be written to scratch an itch, the solution is often created for the joy of it, for the satisfaction of building something really good - be it just for fun, the desire to leave a legacy or building a contemplative mandala. TL;DR: just install better daemons ;) regards marc _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
